Telegram-herald., 1887-03-15

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discovery u The isgs. q seemed a. Il these
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May sce0es similar 20 those described
above - sbg b. pietured.
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a1d 0ae II he very worst IN the annals 0f
rai.foading. As fast a. the victims were
brought 0at. they we're lifted teBdsTlY into
se1le.ss zDd carried 10 the kos4lndAie aud
Forrest hill stations. most o. the dead 10
tbs latter place. Those Eho lived IA Kos
.Indale, and WHO we're able 90 move. score
Or more. climbed painfully up tae enoaa (
ment through mud and Ice into the track
and took up their march for hume, and
this corps OF bleeding and manned were
tramping into rhe town, vas about the hrst
positive information the good people OF
that place bad Of the extent OF the cisasi er.
Before noon the work of eXtricatIon and
rescue had been completed. The dead had
nearly sll been idsnnhed and taken away
by friends or removed 10 the CITY M0rgue.
Tue wounded bad been taken 10 their
homes or 20 the Massachusetts, General and
City hospitals.
As soon as the news OF the disaster
reached Boston the railroad at once
began TO run extra trains TO the
wreck and the Metropolitan Street Railway
started hne Of cars running a about live
minute intervals. Probably 1900 people
visited Tie scene and cart loads OF sDlinters
were carried away as relics Owing 10 the
fact that many OF the victims were removed
in the way above described il Is imposs bic
tonight 10 give an absolutely correct list.
Fully 20 persons are believed TO have been
Injured. OF these = number will die. The
railroad officials are making a dil:geni
search TO ascertain the exact number oi
killed and wounded ana will make q report
as soon a. possible
The raiircad commissioners visited the
scene this afternoon and had pointed out 10
them the supposed cause of the accident.
At the lower end of the hangers which sup
ported the bridge. IS a cast iron box enciOs-
ins q clutch which resembles two fingers of a
hand draw, up 20 half circle. These
clutches were about two oaDd one half inches
wide and one aad one half inches thick.
over the iron fingers was a round steel
pinion about Is inches long and three inches
in diameter, one Of these nngeFs was COM
pleteiy rotled away by the rust and the
other rus;ed about half through. Thus the
whole strain was thrown on these wes <
iron fingers and is was bat a natural conse.,
quence that when the engine
passed that this finger should
break and one of It's supports
being gone the whole bridge had to fail.
The revised list of deaths so far as ascer-
tained is as follows: Lizzie Walton, aged IL
years, Of Dedham; Myron Tilden, conduc-
tor: Lizzer Maudville, of Dedham; n. Nay
lor, policeman of station 13; Mrs. Ellis, OF
West Roxbury; Ida Adams. aged IS years,
of West Roslindale; Ellen BurnetJe, aged
% years. Of Roslindale: Edward Morris, of
Dedham; George Metcalf apothecary, OF
Boston. Mrs. Cardinal. of Roslindale;
Charles Snow. of West Roxbury; Stephen
Hoaghton, aged IS years, OF RosIin-
dale w W. Webster Clapp. OF
West Roxbnry; VIM. L. Spow, OF West
Frank Nichols, Of Dedham; II. H. Humph-
rey. OF Dedham; Miss Harkins, of Dedham;
Hannah Murphy, of West Roxbury; II. T.
Johnson, of Boston; Alice Vanderbilt,
Harry Cav of Roxbury; Stone. of West
Roxbury; Gates, of Rosalindaie, aud RYAN,
of Rosalindsle. VIM. 5. Smith. reported as
injured, died at the city hospital. and VIM
F. Durham died a. the hospital. making
twenty seven dead whose names are known.
There are az the morgue the bodies OF three
men and two women, which yet remain
unidentified.
Those believed 10 be fatally injured are
Joseph Metcalf, West Roxbury; W. +. Bow
man engineer, Dedham; Hervy T. Earn
shaw, Vest Roxbury; Miss Alice Adams.
Ro-lindale: Webster Drake, conductor, BED
ham: w. W. Smith, West Roxbury: John
Murphy. Roslindale; Cyrus Mayes, Roslin-
dale. The latest information makes il safe
10 say 100 persons sustained injuries, but
only about twenty-five Of those are badly
hurt The fact that the entire bridge went
down and that not Fcrap ofiron was attach
ed othe abutments forms a curious feature o
the disaster. The wreck OF the bridge lies
under the train debris. In one OF the gi d.
ers a clear new fracture through its entire
breadth at the point of junction Of two oi
its parts Is shown. it is generally believed
| that the breaking of this girder caused the
bridge ~ give way after one of the
cars had been derailed bv a broken truck
Another theory is that 3 broken rail
caused the accident, but it Is doubtful If an
investigation would throw any light upon
the case for bolts. rails. irons, girders and
cars are so completely intermingied, smash.
ed and brOxcn that il would be difficult tc
tell where they belonged.